"Books are a finer world within the world."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

Delia Smith, British Entertainer

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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Books, Open, Speech, Study

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

Louis Nizer, English Lawyer

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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician

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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Read much, but not many books."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."

John Scott, American Politician

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

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"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

Man

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."

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"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

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"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."

"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"Read much, but not many books."

"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."

"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."

"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."